Deja Vu-the KGB used the Bulgarians to kill a critic in England a few years back. The poison was in the tip of an umbrella, that was used to inject the poison into the defector whose name escapes me...

Murdering political opponents is a very old if not too accepted use of ruthless powers. Going back into the past it accounts for the deaths of various Roman Emperors and Renaissance princes, among many others.

It looks like Putin is not the democrat that many had hoped for, but he is a true alumnus of the KGB.

8 posted on 11/18/2006 5:42:02 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)

Hmmm yes, kinda like people mysteriously cutting off their own heads and shooting htemselves in the back like what happened to people connected with Clinton & who had goods on him. Mysterious? Yeah, and I got swamp land in the Sahara I'd liek to sell too

It's the bitter taste of treason. He took an oath to his country and violated it. So he pays the penalty. Azzam the American will hopefully meet a similar fate. You never trust a sellout, even if he sells out to your own side.

Clinton's reign was marked by similar occurances. There used to be a list on the net with names of dozens of people who were opposed to the Clinton policies and who committed "suicide." If I remember correctly, one even cut his own head off and placed it in a separate garbage container than the one he left his body in. We certainly live in interesting times.

56 posted on 11/19/2006 10:33:33 AM PST by oldfart
(The most dangerous man is the one who has nothing left to lose.)